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IBM Jazz Edges Closer To Open Source
hhavensteincw writes "IBM is molding its Jazz technology, which helps software development teams collaborate, in the image of its popular Eclipse open source community. IBM said that today's move to open access to its Jazz.net portal to anyone to peruse its code, access bug lists, etc. puts it on the path to completely open-source the Jazz technology."
This is what I love about Slashdot.
:)
People are lazy and don't read the article (hey, this is Slashdot - that's how it has always been).
People are not too lazy to post "what the fuck is this about?" even though they don't read it.
Other people complain about people not reading the article.
Those same people then copy and paste or explain what it is, while complaining that people are too lazy to read the article.
Then, OTHER people mod-up the people who are complaining about and enabling the lazy people to continue being more lazy by posting the info directly in a post for them.
That's why this is home.
No, IBM's stock went up 5 points on Monday because their expected earnings per share were $2.80, 20 cents higher than the predictions of analysts. It has absolutely nothing to do with this "latest news of their ever-increasing commitment to open source software." While you and I might care about businesses and open source, Wall Street has exactly one thing in mind: profit, and higher than expected profit caused their stock to go up.
Somewhat, but not quite. This isn't them specifically growing out of the sourceforge.net/open source community, I think this is them trying to go for the "Behind The Firewall" versions of Sourceforge.
Rational's been getting its ass kicked by SourceForge Enterprise Edition and Collabnet Enterprise Edition (in addition to JIRA and GForge) for a while now. While the two big players, SourceForge Enterprise Edition (used to be owned by VA, er, SourceForge.com) and CollabNet Enterprise Edition were bringing the Rational and Star Offices to SFEE and CEE, I think IBM woke up and realized that there are a lot of new things.
CollabNet bought SourceForge Enterprise Edition in April, and it seems like that company is going to go down in flames. If you add on top of SFEE and CEE, they have some Virtualization software that isn't quite hotel management software, and some reporting software that you'd be better off using Jasper or Crystal reports for. Yes, there are eclipse plugins for SFEE and CEE, but, this is taking it completely a step further -- bringing the product lifecycle inside of the IDE, from conceptualization to User stories to coding to defect tracking and releasing software. It also looks like IBM's solved the ability to cluster, something CEE and SFEE haven't been able to do.
It looks promising, to say the least.